"Systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies" at the State Department was cited in the Accountability Review Board's report (released Tuesday) regarding the Benghazi attack on September 11. In response, The New York Times reports that three state officials quit on Wednesday:
...after an independent panel severely criticized the “grossly inadequate” security arrangements at an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, where Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack.
The officials who resigned were Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security; Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary responsible for embassy security; and Raymond Maxwell, a deputy assistant secretary who had responsibility for the North Africa region, an administration official said.Read report here
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is suffering from a virus, is planning to report in front of the House Foreign Affairs committee sometime next month according to Rep. Ros-Lehtinen (committee chairwoman).
Read Clinton's letter to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Finally, on "CBS This Morning," CBS news political director John Dickerson raises an interesting element:
"The big question here was, 'Did Hillary Clinton duck this when it was going on? Did the administration know there was a systemic failure here, but try to push away that story and create a new story?'" said Dickerson. "Much better for it to be a spontaneous attack which no one could see coming than to have systemic failures which they should have seen coming."So what does this mean for the Clinton's political aspirations in 2016? Dickerson predicts, "What Republicans say about this report and her culpability for the failures will be played again and again if she is the nominee or runs in 2016,"
Meanwhile, Bill's "I told you so" moment, for Hillary to unseat the incumbent in 2012, is bitter sweet at the tip of his tongue.
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